The only way to diffuse it...

The Editors on John McCain & Jeremiah Wright

"From now until November, any Republican criticizing Wright will be accused of playing the race card. It’s a way to shut down discussion of Wright’s poisonous worldview, and of what it says about Obama. These rules stack the deck and stifle legitimate debate. Republicans must reject them."

First rule of running for office: do not, repeat DO NOT try to build up your neo-Nazi base.

Read it all...

The "Men in Black" vanish and people emerge:

"As a man once said, 'yes we can'."

OK...

John McCain: “I Will Be Hamas’ Worst Nightmare”

"McCain responded that it’s clear who Hamas wants to be President. So does Daniel Ortega. “I will be Hamas’ worst nightmare,” said McCain. McCain noted that Iran is stepping up their export of explosives to Iraq, and they wouldn’t want him to be President either. New slogan: John McCain: America’s enemies’ least favorite candidate."

Ah, the government at your service...

Sorry, Glenn, this too......

I'M WATCHING A KUDLOW DISCUSSION OF ETHANOL and I think that most of the panelists -- except for Frank Gaffney -- are bashing ethanol rather uncritically. The problem with ethanol is a government-subsidy problem, and a trade-barrier problem. It's not a problem with ethanol itself. Make it out of something other than food, and lower the barrier to Brazilian ethanol imports, and it would help our current situation a lot. We're not doing that because of farm-subsidy politics. The problem is, basically, the Iowa caucuses and the pandering that results. But simply bashing all biofuels uncritically is dumb.

UPDATE: On the other hand, the new farm bill demonstrates that Congress is dumber:

We have a program that makes us overpay for sugar, and now we're going to start a new program to subsidize the ethanol we create from it — because without the subsidy, the inflated sugar price we've created will make the ethanol unprofitable.

Upside: Everybody involved has an incentive to pay off some Senators.

This, too....

There once was a man named Gore,
who thought he had a climate change cure,
then things like grain and rice,
went far up in price,
now he's to blame for starving the poor!

Via Instapundit

Wrong crowd. "It is difficult to imagine any other candidate hanging out with such a diverse group of weirdoes and still be[ing] the front-runner for dogcatcher, let alone president."

Couldnt be...

The Syrian nuclear program

And you expected.....?

Don Surber

"After 30 years of railing for separation of church and state, Bill Moyers comes to the aid of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright."

The terrorist thing - again...

Patterico

"I don’t know if Trinity Church is a cult but I think Wright is un-American and filled with hate speech. And if I said the things Wright said only I directed them at black people and their institutions, Wright would have every right to think I am anti-black and hate-filled, too.

Nevertheless, Wright believes the criticism was unfair and unjust:"

Read the comments, too....

Strategy or vendetta?

Yes, but the courts are supposed to decide things in our favor!

"It was Al Gore who made it a judicial question…

Asphalt Jungle: The Temple Of Doom

"I say, get off the planet while you still can."

A terrorist attack....

Wright offering fresh fodder to Obama critics

It's almost as if Wright is working for Hamas - he attacks and then draws enough fire so that he can claim that the white folk are racist and out to get him. If he really cared about his boy, he would shut the f--k up and let Obama's momentum take over.

But he is obviously more intent on rubbing salt into the wounds, and creating the self-fulfilling prophesy of black failure due to white racism. Then he can blame and preach some more..... Very Palestinian of him, don't you think?

I agree....

Aren't We Special?

I get really nervous when journalists start getting in bed with the government.

Corporate media, professional journalism organizations, and journalism schools seem determined to carve out special rights from the government in the practice of the profession.

See if Michael Moore will do a movie on this one...

Lloyd Greif on Carter Center

"If he was hoping to rekindle a flagging peace process, Carter is doomed to failure. But is that really what he was attempting to accomplish? A hint lies in the very organization he said he was representing on this trip, the Carter Center. His not-for-profit research and activist organization has prospered as a direct result of Arab largesse. Saudi Arabia, the source of 15 of the 19 plane hijackers on 9/11, and whose royal family has funded terrorism outside the kingdom, has channeled tens of millions of dollars into the Carter Center. In 1993 alone, the late King Fahd gifted $7.6 million. More recently, the King’s nephew, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, donated at least $5 million. The Saudi Fund for Development is a recurring supporter, as is the family of Osama bin Laden."


"It would seem Carter is acting as a lobbyist for foreign interests and should be required to register as such. At the very least, he should come clean and disclose all foreign sources of funding for his center. It is indeed a sad day in American history when a former president lowers himself to becoming a propaganda tool for terrorists bent on harming our country and the democratic principles by which we live."

The only way....

Jon Corzine Has Testicular Fortitude

"Nevertheless, it was a breath of fresh air. Not only is Corzine proposing to reduce spending, he's doing it by one of the few ways that will actually work. Rather than making incremental changes that will reduce the effectiveness of his government more or less across the board, he's making a decision that there are some things the government should no longer be doing at all because it can't afford it."

Via Instapundit

BUSTING BOGUS GUN REPORTING from Brian Ross and ABC News.

TV news should always be the source of last resort....

It just doesn't seem right....

A Deadhead’s Dream for a Campus Archive

The Grateful Dead, whose songs celebrated personal freedom, American idealism and mind-altering drugs, will donate a cache of their papers, posters and props on Thursday to the University of California, Santa Cruz, which plans to use the musical miscellany as part of a research center to be known as Dead Central.

It bothers me more than just a little that all of the "old" counterculture has gone so damn mainstream; and I have a feeling that Jerry would not really approve of this either. But what do I know? It seems that every commercial and TV intro has a song from the Who; and the Louis Vuitton ads with Keith Richards make me want to wretch.....